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3) A simple government: twelve things we really need from Washington (and a trillion that we don't!)
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Pub. Date
2011
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An optimistic manifesto for America's future government by the former presidential candidate outlines recommendations for upholding the nation's founding principles and overcoming election-focused politics.
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2012
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America's unique prosperity is based on its creation of a middle class. In the twentieth century, that middle class provided the workforce, the educated skills, and the demand that gave life to the world's greatest consumer economy. It was innovative and dynamic; it eclipsed old imperial systems and colonial archetypes. It gave rise to a dream: that if you worked hard and followed the rules you would prosper in America, and your children would enjoy...
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SelectBooks, Inc
Pub. Date
c2012
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"A successful American entrepreneur offers solutions to the loss of American jobs and manufacturing. To help consumers understand buying choices, he advocates a movement to pass laws to label imports with the percentages of a product's costs of manufacture in the countries of origin and data showing whether trade ratios are balanced and beneficial to the United States"--Provided by publisher.
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Center Street
Pub. Date
2018.
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Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci tells the inside story of how Donald J. Trump, a billionaire living on Fifth Avenue, identified the struggle of blue-collar Americans, and won the Presidency. This is the comeback story for America and Americans. Both Wall Street and Main Street are now thriving and will continue to do so under our current president and his economic policies. Scaramucci shares his insights and stories from his long-term relationship...
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Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
c2011
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Steyn argues that President Barack Obama is a dangerous radical who wants not only big government, but the Europeanization of the United States. He explains how citizens can roll back the liberal establishment and return to fundamental American values.
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Distributed by Ingram Publisher Services
Pub. Date
c2010
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Dean Baker, codirector of the Center for Economic and Policy Research recounts the strategies used by the country?s top economic policymakers to conceal their failure to recognize the housing bubble or take steps to rein it in before it grew to unprecedented levels, resulting in the loss of millions of jobs, homes, and the life savings of tens of millions of people. He quashes dire warnings of looming rampant inflation and spiraling debt with solid...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2012
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"The age of American global dominance is ending. In recent years, risky economic and foreign policies have steadily eroded the power structure in place since the Cold War. And now, staggering under a huge burden of debt, the country must make some tough choices--or watch its creditors walk away. In The Price of Decline, Michael Moran, a leading geostrategy analyst at Roubini Global Economics, the Council on Foreign Relations, and other leading institutions,...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Description
We have experienced a shift in American character: we've become a nation of moochers. Increasingly dependent on the efforts of others over our own, Americans are free to freeload. From the corporate bailouts on Wall Street to the alarming increases in personal default and dependency, from questionable tax exemptions to enormous pension, healthcare, and other entitlement costs, the new moocher culture cuts across lines of class, race, and private and...
14) Capitalist punishment: how Wall Street is using your money to create a country you didn't vote for
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Publisher
Broadside Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
A Wall Street cartel has quietly seized control of the American economy, and they are forcing governments and businesses to bow down to their political agenda--using your money to do it. Three Wall Street firms have quietly amassed more money than Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Andrew Carnegie, and John Rockefeller combined. But the money isn't even theirs. These asset managers have accumulated all their power through "passive funds," as most investors no...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Simpler government arrived four years ago. It helped put money in your pocket. It saved hours of your time. It improved your children' s diet, lengthened your life span, and benefited businesses large and small. It did so by issuing fewer regulations, by insisting on smarter regulations, and by eliminating or improving old regulations. Cass R. Sunstein, as administrator of the most powerful White House office you've never heard of, oversaw it and...
16) Overhaul: an insider's account of the Obama administration's emergency rescue of the auto industry
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
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A uniquely informed investigative account of one of the biggest financial crises of President Obama's early administration
During his first year in office, President Obama faced the possibility of more than a million lost jobs as GM and Chrysler headed for financial ruin. He joined forces with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and economic advisor Larry Summers in a historic government intervention to keep these two auto-industry giants afloat, working...
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Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
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Consumer advocate, activist, humanitarian, and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader is arguably the most provocative and important progressive voice in America today-a fearless reformer whom The Atlantic named one of the 100 most influential figures in American history. In these troubling times of intractable fiscal and social distress, Nader offers a new program to help rescue America: The Seventeen Solutions. His powerful, paradigm-shifting...
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2013]
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There are more rich people and more poor people in our country than ever before. That widening gap means dealing with one big, uncomfortable truth: the middle is growing thinner and thinner. Globally renowned economist Tyler Cowen explains how this happened: high earners are taking ever more advantage of computers and achieving ever-better results. Meanwhile, low earners who haven't committed to learning the new technologies have poor prospects. Nearly...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
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"The author of the widely praised Age of Greed now gives us a bold indictment of some of our most accepted economic theories-why they're wrong, the harm they've done, and the theories that would vastly improve on them. Jeff Madrick-former New York Times business columnist and now Harper's economics columnist-mounts a comprehensive case against prevailing mainstream economic thinking, illustrating how it has damaged markets, infrastructure, and individual...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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"A compelling alternative view of the relationship between our politics and our economy. Throughout America, structural problems are getting worse. Economic inequality is near Gilded Age heights, the healthcare system is a mess, and the climate crisis continues to grow. Yet most ambitious policy proposals that might fix these calamities are dismissed as wastefully expensive by default. From the kitchen table to Congress, debates are punctuated with...